Industries
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The Rise of Smart Cities
Best practices from the Americas, Asia and Europe are emerging and bringing together public companies, government organizations, academic research centers and the electronics supply chain.
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Carbon Nanotubes Make Planar Light Source
A field emission diode based on carbon nanotubes as electron sources could make for planar light sources to rival LED assemblies for lighting.
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DSL Resurgence Driving Growth in Home Gateway Investment
Market for broadband consumer premises equipment set to grow 20 percent--most since 2010--this year.
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Neonode Introduces Sensor-Free Multi-Touch Technology for PCs
With touchscreens only representing small percentage of the PC market, the company said this lower cost technology could open up a host of opportunities.
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Qualcomm Grabs CSR For $2.5 Billion
There goes another UK chip company as Qualcomm offers 900p per share and sees off rival bidder Microchip to secure connectivity chip company CSR plc.
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GSMA Issues IoT Guideless For Cellular Users
The GSMA industry body has issued guidelines for those wishing to layer machine-to-machine communications over the cellular networks run by their members, the mobile phone service operators.
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Samsung Announces 60GHz Wi-Fi
Samsung fights back against Qualcomm – which acquired Wilocity earlier this year – with the announcement of 4.6Gbps Wi-Fi technology that operates in the 60GHz Wi-Fi band.
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Smart Water Meter Revenue to Double by 2019
Revenues will reach $1.1 billion as a result of managed services, analytics and smart water network adoption pushing demand in homes and businesses.
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Fraunhofer Mikroelektronik Introduces New Devices at Semicon Europa 2014
German company Fraunhofer Mikroelektronik introduced several innovations and new devices during Semicon Europa 2014 in Grenoble, France.
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News from Semicon Europa 2014
The first day of Semicon Europa 2014 saw the Silicon Innovation Forum host more than 25 start-up companies.
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Blue LED Inventors Win Nobel Prize
The blue light emitting diode has allowed white light that can be produced more energy efficiently and using less resources than previous light sources. And so the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics goes to Professors, Akasaki, Amano and Nakamura.
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Cisco Buys Networking Memory Startup
For the second time Sundar Iyer has formed a startup company and sold it to Cisco. This time it is Memoir Systems with its "algorithmic" approach to memory utilization.
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For HP, Innovation Remains Key Post-Split
The decision to separate into two entities produces opportunities to succeed but it can’t just be business as usual for the computer giant in order to survive.
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U.S. Manufacturing Caps Strong Q3
U.S. manufacturing growth slowed slightly in September, but the trend remained positive for the 16th consecutive month, according to a closely watched indicator.
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AMD Demos Network Function Virtualization on ARM SoC
A 64-bit ARM-based R-series system-chip from AMD is being used for network function virtualization and demoed at ARM Techcon.
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ARM Offers Free OS for Internet of Things
ARM is offering a free OS as part of a leaf-node-to cloud development platform that it hopes will break the log-jam of fragmentation and piece-meal engineering of the Internet of Things.
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SanDisk Unveils First X3 SSD
X300 solid-state drive features error-correction to increase reliability and SanDisk’s SSD Dashboard, which gives visibility into the drive’s performance, security and available firmware updates.
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Sensor-Enabled Sports Gear Boosts Performance
Vendors are packing sensors into sports gear to give athletes feedback and data to crunch in the name of improving performance.
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Delphi Adopts NXP Vehicle Communications
Cars that chatter with each other and with road-side infrastructure such as traffic lights, could be on the roads within two years thanks to Delphi, NXP and Cohda Wireless.
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Philips Ready to Exit Lighting, Focus on Healthcare
Philips' CEO Frans van Houten says he knows it is a big step but the time is right to focus the company on health and consumer lifestyle products and services.
